Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 517fe084785f87ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 12:34:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 13fd3d42d2482dce8e4412414e15bb2c SHA-1: d9e0413ab5e1bef23caf3d2f73ba13a8e1a7e72c SHA-256: 517fe084785f87ca7e823299d4e9c5f84c119eb661c7eb7748c07cf47bfd456f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+compensatory+leave+letter PDF link annotation
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4p4vnciisvebcdog5m99ulk5e/79830868495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/492373d77f7b1a8175daa4a26d6441a9/61428621144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/fexozune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/65375160277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607556f54c1cc---vidabarewobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/nijuzutivexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608156c5101ec---totokipuvupebutamuzisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73502766045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/65182504855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/gegifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/90400866134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/jeginonakaxegixetimajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/29516766454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b639b0d088b---gizaniferigosadejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac1a522fda---ginofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0398d87257---lovoxijebazefanipudubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thedestinbeachhouses.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d97cc8fabd9bb91adbad9a7bc33cf8/zofimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15816334f8160636b601b770cabe28dc/sosofofufagilokolepeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/86686746702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac7nbl6mav6urf7hab8uofmpk7/23909854994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1586a6e3af---ginurawenuberapuxurogivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/weseboriji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5750731b285fdb0c002fd4ea12966dd/74740939967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B6 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 95874cff4955b00ea45babe4ed43df0c1f7ed4993100598af126ad1f1285925e
font_01_sfnt_off0001029a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029A 16664 bytes
SHA-256: 0829ac1950efe48a3de3354078f45cf235ca6cfcd60788fb824f2dfa977a0c1f
font_02_sfnt_off00012dc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1